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Kate Williams

Jazz pianist/composer Kate Williams was born in London into a musical family (her father is the guitarist John Williams, her mother a classical pianist). A recipient of the John Dankworth Award For Talent Deserving Wider Recognition, she has gained a distinctive reputation as both a writer and performer. She has released several previous CDs, each one to critical acclaim, including Made Up (with her septet) and Smoke And Mirrors (with tenor legend Bobby Wellins). Both were in Mojo magazine's top ten jazz albums in 2011 and 2012 respectively. Kate's latest album Atlas And Vulcana is a further reflection of her colourful originality as a pianist/composer/arranger

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On The Wing Of A Dragonfly

By Kate Williams

Label: Kwjazz
Released: 2026
Track listing: On The Wing Of A Dragonfly; Soon Enough; A Rose-Tinted Spectacle; In Sight; Snowdrops To Wintersweet; Taker's Dozen; Short Order; Jitterbug Waltz; On The Wing Of A Dragonfly (reprise).

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Article: Album Review

Kate Williams: On The Wing Of A Dragonfly

Read "On The Wing Of A Dragonfly" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan

One of the many pleasures of a piano trio is that the pianist is freed from the need to complement or integrate with other harmonic voices, breathing more expansively, leaving gaps in the texture or venturing into unexpected tonal areas. The bass also benefits from this openness: it steps into sharper relief, freed from a reinforcing ...

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Music Is: Chris Biscoe Plays Mike Westbrook

By Chris Biscoe

Label: Trio
Released: 2023
Track listing: Music Is; Mama Chicago; Goin’ to Chicago; Aggro-Vancouver-Desperado; View From The Drawbridge; July ’79; Wasteground And Weeds; Music Is.

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Music Is: Chris Biscoe Plays Mike Westbrook

By Chris Biscoe

Label: Trio Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Music Is; Mama Chicago; Goin' To Chicago; Aggro-Vancouver-Desperado; View From The Drawbridge; July '79; Wasteground And Weeds; Music Is.

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Article: Album Review

Chris Biscoe: Music Is: Chris Biscoe Plays Mike Westbrook

Read "Music Is: Chris Biscoe Plays Mike Westbrook" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

Chris Biscoe has played in the bands led by the great British composer Mike Westbrook and/or his wife, singer and lyricist Kate Westbrook, every year since 1979 bar one. He is the Westbrooks' first-call saxophonist and clarinetist and the love runs both ways. It also rings out on every track of this beautiful album.

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Article: Album Review

Mike Westbrook: London Bridge Live In Zurich 1990

Read "London Bridge Live In Zurich 1990" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

Viewed from the other side of the Atlantic, Mike Westbrook is probably Britain's best kept secret. A composer, pianist and tubaist--above all, composer--Westbrook's recording career began in the late 1960s. Since then he has released upwards of fifty albums, spanning jazz rock through jazz and contemporary-classical fusions such as the 2 x CD London Bridge Live ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Year New Decade

Read "New Year New Decade" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin

by Mary Foster Conklin

Happy New Year! The first broadcast of the new decade included new releases by Works for Me, Viktori Japilatovic and Bill Cunliffe, with birthday shout outs to vocalists Susannah McCorkle (pictured), Nancy Lamott, Michelle Walker, Georgia Mancio and Jelena Jovović, saxophonist Carol Sudhalter, pianists Myra Melford and Lisa Hilton, clarinetist Anat Cohen and Clark Terry, among ...

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Finding Home

By Kate Williams

Label: Kwjazz
Released: 2019
Track listing: One For The Bees; Camminando, Camminando; No More Blues; Don't Go To Strangers; The last Boy on Earth; Halfway; We Walk; The Key; Finding Home; Heartwood; Tell The River; Play

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Notre Vie Comme Un Western

Read "Notre Vie Comme Un Western" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin

by Mary Foster Conklin

The Bastille Day broadcast included new releases from John Finbury & Thelma De Freitas, Calabria Foti, Peter Eldridge & Kenny Werner and Maggie Gould plus birthday shout outs to songwriters Jimmy McHugh, Joan Whitney, saxophonist Lauren Sevian, drummer Gayelynn McKinney, cellist Akua Dixon, bassist Iris Ornig, vocalists Suzanne Pittson, Debbie Harry, Luciana Souza and trumpter Carol ...


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